A Sampling of Advisory Opinion.

June 6: Also making itself felt in the markets [Friday, as the indexes reacted to an oil-price spike] was a 0.5 percentage-point leap in the unemployment rate [for May, to] 5.5%; expectations were for a rise of 0.1, to 5.1%. The unemployment rate is a product of the separate and often more volatile household survey, which showed a 285,000 drop in employment, a 577,000 rise in the labor force...